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Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn is a shrunken medieval village in Breconshire, Wales, containing house platforms and hollow ways that represent the physical remains of settlement contraction during the late medieval period. The site comprises earthwork features including raised domestic platforms where timber or stone buildings formerly stood, alongside sunken trackways created through centuries of pedestrian and vehicular traffic within the settlement. These features date principally to the medieval period and reflect the patterns of rural habitation and movement within a Welsh upland community before the village declined. The earthwork remains survive as important archaeological evidence of domestic organisation and village topography in medieval Wales, designated as a protected monument under the Cadw schedule.
House Platforms and Hollow Ways in the Shrunken Medieval Village of Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR220. View the official record →
Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn is a shrunken medieval village in Breconshire, Wales, containing house platforms and hollow ways that represent the physical remains of settlement contraction during the late medieval period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference BR220.
House Platforms and Hollow Ways in the Shrunken Medieval Village of Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a house platform. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
House Platforms and Hollow Ways in the Shrunken Medieval Village of Llanfihangel Tal-y-Llyn is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is BR220.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Castell Blaenllynfi (6.4 km), Bwlch Round Cairn (6.9 km), Tyle Clydach Hillfort (7 km).
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